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Begun the kernel wars have (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 week ago by sirico@feddit.uk to c/games@lemmy.world
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Battledield now throwing an error because Valorant is already sitting in kernel memory. Time to buy your EA Battlefield PC but don't forget your Valorant PC

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[–] Carighan@piefed.world 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It uses an anti-cheat that is loaded while the game is not? What is this and why is anybody playing it at all? O.o

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can tell you why they do it. Which is to get installed at launch time (like a driver required to boot for example), so they can watch absolutely everything that loads into the system.

But yes, I wouldn't play any game that needs a kernel anti-cheat.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kind of funny now we need to go back to consoles to play games because these asshole corps want to hijack our pcs.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or just don't play these games. There are enough games out there that you'll never run out of decent ones.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Agreed. The steam sales alone could keep you so busy that you probably couldn’t even get around to test each one in one life time.

Chances are if we tried we’d probably find one that you like equal if not better.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got a console when I switched to Linux. This has been a problem for decades now. So I've got one corporate game box that works with my friends, and one computer that I actually control.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I just prefer my main pc to do everything...but I will probably not play those games anyways

[–] markz@suppo.fi 23 points 1 week ago

All of these companies keep looking for places they can get an inch more. Sometimes it backfires, but other times it succeeds and gets normalized.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope, valorants anti cheat loads on boot and embeds itself on deep windows callbacks to see everything in and out

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Most don't know, don't care, just want more games.